Bug#131583: debian-policy: packaging-manual section 7.1 missing from policy

2002-02-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I think this does belong in the developers reference, and not policy, since this comes under how to use the tool chain well (a good practices rule). I think we need to go through policy again and dump things that really oought to be dpkg documentation. manoj -- There's a

Bug#131583: debian-policy: packaging-manual section 7.1 missing from policy

2002-01-31 Thread Michael Bramer
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 08:58:53PM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: > Since it is very important to have proper descriptions, I would like > to see most of that section integrated into policy. If it doesn't > belong there, feel free to reassign this bug to the proper place, > maybe developers-reference..

Bug#131583: debian-policy: packaging-manual section 7.1 missing from policy

2002-01-30 Thread Gergely Nagy
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.6.0 Severity: normal Recently I was looking at a package that one of my applicants created, and in its description, it had a list of features. However, it looked awful in dselect. I remembered that I read it somewhere about how Descriptions should be formatted t